Welcome to NHERI Tall Wood Project

This is an NSF-funded project to develop and validate a resilient-based seismic design methodology for tall wood buildings. The project started in September 2016 and will last till 2020. The project team will validate the design methodology through shake table testing of a 10-story full-scaled wood building specimen at NHERI@UCSD. It will be the world's largest wood building tested at full-scale.

An NSF-funded planning project was completed in 2016 and provided the conceptual and technical preparation of this project. More information about the planning project and its (downloadable) deliverables can be found here: NEES Tall Wood Planning Project

06/2017: Research team arrive on site NHERI@UCSD to kick off Full-scale 2-story mass timber building test

04/2017: Team designing for the full-scale 2-story mass timber building test at NHERI@UCSD from June~July 2017

03/2017: Team preparing for a full-scale 2-story mass timber building test at NHERI@UCSD

01/2017: Team seeking donations and preparing for sub-assembly tests at NHERI@Lehigh

11/2016: Archetype meeting of the project held at LEVER Architectures Portland OR office

09/2016: Kick-off conference call

This research project is supported by the National Science Foundation through a number of collaborative awards including: CMMI 1636164, CMMI 1634204, CMMI 1635363, CMMI 1635227, CMMI 1635156, CMMI 1634628. The use of NHERI experimental facility is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Program.